Category Archives: Books

Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading

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Books received

Luke Glanville’s Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Sue Middleton’s Henri Lefebvre and Education, the new issues of RIS and Transactions, and a manuscript to review.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading

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The ten books that have stayed with me…

This originated on Facebook, and I had it from Helga Tawil-Souri. Rules: In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be … Continue reading

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Justin E.H. Smith on his plans for the next ten years of research

I’ve mentioned Justin E.H. Smith on this blog before, mainly in relation to his excellent book on Leibniz, Divine Machines. In this post he talks about his various future book projects, including several under contract, and some translations. Will be of interest … Continue reading

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The Birth of Territory & Terror and Territory introductions available online

You can read the introductions to my books The Birth of Territory and Terror and Territory online here. Previews of books by my colleagues in Politics & International Studies at Warwick can be found by going to research cluster pages and following the links … Continue reading

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – sample pages available

Sample pages for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization are now available on the publisher’s website. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required … Continue reading

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